Phosphate in Soils
Interaction with Micronutrients, Radionuclides and Heavy Metals
Emergent Environmental Pollution Series

Edited by One of the Best Specialists in Soil Science

Recent studies reveal that Phosphorus (P) in the form of phosphate, a macronutrient essential for plant growth, and crop yields can influence the bioavailability, retention, and mobility of trace elements, metal(loid)s, and radio nuclides in soils. When this occurs, phosphates can affect the dynamics of heavy metals and influence soil characteristics, impacting soil mobility and toxicity.

Phosphate in Soils: Interaction with Micronutrients, Radionuclides and Heavy Metals

Composed of 12 chapters, this text:

• Provides an overview of the reactions of metal(loid)s and common P compounds that are used as fertilizer in soils
• Emphasizes the effect of phosphorus on copper and zinc adsorption in acid soils
• Discusses findings on the influence of phosphate compounds on speciation, mobility, and bioavailability of heavy metals in soils as well as the role of phosphates on in situ and phytoremediation of heavy metals for contaminated soils
• Places emphasis on the influence of phosphate on various heavy metals species in soils, and their solubility/mobility and availability
• Provides extensive information on testing various high phosphate materials for remediation of heavy metal, micronutrients, and radionuclides contaminated sites
• Explores the reactivity of heavy metals, micronutrients and radionuclides elements in several soils
• Presents a case study illustrating various remediation efforts of acidic soils and remediation of Cu, Zn, and lead (Pb) contaminated soils around nonferrous industrial plants
• Emphasizes the significance of common ions (cations and anions) on phosphate mobility and sorption in soils, and more

The author includes analytical and numerical solutions along with hands-on applications, and addresses other topics that include the transport and sorption modeling of heavy metals in the presence of phosphate at different scales in the vadose zone.

Phosphorus-Induced (Im)mobilization of Heavy Metal(loid)s in Soils. Influence of Phosphates on Copper and Zinc Retention Processes in Acid Soils. Phosphate in Soils: Interaction with Micronutrients, Radionuclides, and Heavy Metals. Influence of Phosphates on Retention and Mobility of Zn, Cd, and V in Soils. Influence of Phosphate Fertilizer on Cadmium in Agricultural Soils and Crops. Multicomponent Modeling of Phosphate and Arsenic Reactions and Transport in Soils and Geological Media. Influence of Phosphates on Fractionation, Mobility, and Bioavailability of Soil Metal(loid)s. Effect of Phosphate Addition on Mobility and Phytoavailability of Heavy Metals in Soils. Bioavailability of Trace Elements in Soils Amended with High-Phosphate Materials. Influence of Long-Term Soil Application of Sewage Sludge Rich in P on Heavy Metals Bioavailability to Plants. Effectiveness of Lime and Glauconite-Phosphorite Containing Organo-Mineral Ameliorants in Heavy-Metal-Contaminated Soils. Influence of Common Ions on Sorption and Mobility of Soil Phosphorus.

H. Magdi Selim is a professor of soil physics, A. George and Mildred L. Caldwell Endowed Professor, School of Plant, Environmental and Soil Sciences at Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge. He received his BS in soil science from Alexandria University, Egypt, and his MS and PhD degrees in soil physics from Iowa State University, Ames. His research lies in the areas of kinetics of reactive chemicals in heterogeneous porous media and transport modeling of dissolved chemicals in water-saturated and -unsaturated soils. He has authored or coauthored numerous scientific publications in several journals, and edited and coauthored several books.